What makes a refugee?

Source: Save The Children

About the people in the photos

Ghinwa*, 13, fled the war in Syria and now lives in a refugee settlement in Lebanon with her family. Photo: Jonathan Hyams / Save the Children.

Refugees and returnees cross the Joda border from Sudan into South Sudan. Photo: Marie-Sophie Schwarzer / Save the Children.

Beata*, 27, and her newborn Beni* outside a medical facility run by Save the Children in Mahama Refugee Camp, Rwanda, after fleeing the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Photo: Yagazie Emezi / Save the Children.

Jouman*, 16, fled the war in Sudan when violence erupted. Now she studies at a refugee school in Cairo, Egypt. Photo: Amira Hosny/ Save the Children.

Sofiia*, 14, holding her guitar in the family’s home in Wroclaw, Poland, as they were forced to flee Ukraine after the full-scale war started in February 2022. Photo: Save the Children.

Kasereka*, 15, plays football at a Child-Friendly Space in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement, Uganda. Kasereka and his family fled violence in DRC. Photo: Esther Ruth Mbabazi / Save The Children.

Views of the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo: Daphnee Cook / Save the Children.

Smiling Hassan*, 6, at a displacement camp in South Sudan. Hassan lives here with his family after fleeing the war in Sudan. Photo: Joel Bebe/ Save the Children.

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